Title :
CellPilot: A Seamless Communication Solution for Hybrid Cell Clusters
Author :
Girard, N. ; Gardner, W.B. ; Carter, J. ; Grewal, G.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
Abstract :
The Cell Pilot library provides a comprehensive inter process communication solution for parallel programming in Con clusters comprised of Cell BE and other computers. It extends the process/channel approach of the existing Pilot library to cover processes running on Cell PPEs and SPEs. The same simple API is used to read and write messages on channels defined between pairs of processes regardless of location, while hiding communication details from the user. Cell Pilot uses MPI for inter-node communication, and the Cell SDK within a Cell node.
Keywords :
application program interfaces; message passing; parallel programming; software engineering; API; C on clusters; MPI; cell PPE; cell SDK; cell SPE; cell broadband engine; cell node; cell pilot library; comprehensive interprocess communication solution; hybrid cell clusters; internode communication; parallel programming; process-channel approach; seamless communication solution; software development kit; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Helium; Libraries; Microprocessors; Programming; Tiles; Cell Broadband Engine; MPI; high-performance computing; parallel programming;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel Processing Workshops (ICPPW), 2011 40th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Taipei City
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1337-8
Electronic_ISBN :
1530-2016
DOI :
10.1109/ICPPW.2011.61
